I have been very wonderful, and whether Google really cares about the Chinese market. The desktop search (hereinafter referred to as GDS) has been launched for a long time, and the Chinese version has not moved, which makes the domestic Google horses are very depressed. Not late, Baidu has just announced the launch of hard disk search (hereinafter referred to as BDS), Google Desktop Search Chinese version is also coming. It seems that the market is still a bit competitive, and the competition is at least a driving force. Yesterday afternoon, Google's public relations company has begun to contact major media and is willing to provide an interview opportunity for this new product. They are probably realized that it is a bit late. The English version of the GDS has already removed the beta tag, the Chinese version of the beta just came.
Just, it can be compared to this competitive product of Google and Baidu. From the installer from both, GDS is only 1.1 megabytes, and BDS has 3.2 megabytes. Baidu said that the analysis part of the light PDF file is more than 1 megaby. However, GDS now also supports PDF search, which is obviously not a reason. From the memory occupancy of the two, GDS is also significantly lower than BDS.
Support file format type:
Project GDSBDS Outlook / Outlook Express e-mail there have Netscape Mail / Thunderbird whether there is no MSN Messenger chats AOL Instant Messenger or without Internet Explorer history there have Netscape / Firefox / Mozilla whether Word Excel Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Powerpoint TXT / RTF There is a picture of PDF, there is a picture of the picture, there is Rar, ZIP, EXE.
The file format supported by both parties is similar, but in the IM chat record, GDS supports AIM instead of MsnMessenger, and is not significant for domestic users. In terms of support for Firefox, GDS is significantly stronger than BDS, Baidu seems to have not considered Firefox users. Less than 1% of China Firefox users, in most domestic websites, there is no business value, not only to Baidu.
The index speed is not compared, and the speed of the feeling is faster. On the index, the differences between the two are mainly engaged on the index of Firefox browsing history, because I mainly use Firefox, only one, GDS is more than 4,000 indexes than BDS.
Always make Baidu's Chinese word, Google seems to be better, at least not inferior to Baidu. In some special tests, GDS performance is better than BDS. For example, a famous "kimono" test, bad word technology, will search for a large number of "and service" results, such as "software and services", "products and services", etc. In this test, GDS will not include "and service" in "kimono" search results, while BDS does not perform well for this. So use the BDS to search "kimono", which may not find the contents of the related kimono. Surprisingly, Baidu web search is much better, most result is accurate, it seems that the word technique used by BDS is different from Baidu web search. For example, search "send all", GDS will divide it into two words "dispatched" and "all", and BDS searches a bunch of "Police Station".
I didn't have a careful test, so I can only say "impression". In general use, both search efficiency is very high. For those who have a lot of local documents that need to be searched, desktop search tools are really helpful, but I rarely use local search, so I don't think desktop search is a tool.
Although this time Google has a long hurry, the technical skill is still more solid; although Baidu is slightly chair, it is still difficult to expect. GDS has opened an API and provides development tools. Users can also download more GDS plugins to extend the application range of GDS. In this regard, I haven't seen Baidu's actions.
From:
http://www.donews.net/keeso/archive/2005/03/08/29660.aspx
